A judge ordered on Tuesday that bail remain at $175,000 for a Calvert County man charged with attempted murder after a 9-year-old boy was shot in the head with a BB gun at his grandparents' home in Edgewater.

The 9-year-old had been taken to the emergency room by his father. A scan of his head found a projectile that looked like a BB had punctured his skull and was lodged in his brain, charging documents state.

Witnesses told police that Stallings was in a bedroom of the Edgewater home with the 9-year-old and two other boys while adults were in the living room watching TV, police said in charging documents.

One of the boys told police Stallings pumped the air-powered BB rifle five times after he repeatedly told him to put the gun down, police said.

He told police he "heard a noise then looked over and saw blood."

At around 9:30 p.m., one of the boys told adults in the home that Stalling had shot the boy in the head with the BB gun, police said.

They checked on the boy, who was bleeding from his right temple, but otherwise appeared to be OK, the documents say.

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No one initially thought the BB had penetrated the boy's skull.

"We didn't know it was that serious until the next day," said the boy's mother, Jonitra Parker, of Edgewater.

Police said Stallings told them in an interview that he was in the bedroom when he picked the gun up from the floor and began playing with it.

Stallings also told police, "his finger was on the trigger of the BB gun and (he) swung the gun in (the boy's) direction when it fired and struck (him) in the head," according to charging documents.

He told police the muzzle was about 2 feet from the boy's head when the gun fired, police said.

No one in the home had seen anyone take the BB gun into the bedroom, police said. They said it was not usually kept there.

The BB was not removed from the boy's head because surgery posed a greater risk than leaving it in his brain, police said.

Parker said her son has not returned to school since the incident and can no longer play sports.

"It's been a long process, but he's getting a little better," she said.

He has since been discharged from the hospital.

Parker said Stallings had been living at her parent's home for a couple of years.

She initially had mixed feelings about charges being brought against Stallings, she said, because of the family relationship.

Parker said that after speaking with others who were there, she doesn't believe it was an accident.

"He has not apologized for what happened," she said.

Online court records indicate Stallings does not have a prior criminal record.